Overeem, 5 Others Pass Strikeforce Independent Drug Testing

Strikeforce heavyweight champion Alistair
Overeem has tested negative for anabolic steroids and drugs of
abuse based upon independent testing that was administered by the
promotion, CEO Scott Coker told Sherdog.com on Friday.

Six of the 10 tested main-card athletes from Saturday’s Strikeforce
“Heavy Artillery" event in St. Louis have passed the in-house drug
tests administered on the eve of the event, said Coker. They
include Antonio
Silva, Joey
Villasenor, Ronaldo “Jacare” Souza, Rafael “Feijao” Cavalcante
and Antwain Britt.

An independent on-site technician from a local laboratory conducted
the urinalysis screening in the event’s host hotel following the
official weigh-ins last Friday. The Missouri Office of Athletics,
which oversaw Saturday’s event, also conducted random post-fight
testing, which led to the promotion’s decision to sweep the entire
main card on its own.

Missouri commissioner Tim Leuckenoff told Sherdog.com prior to the
event that the regulatory body would test for “all illegal and
unprescribed drugs.” Lueckenoff said that the results would be kept
confidential, per the state’s testing protocol, but that if the
state agency filed a disciplinary case against an athlete for a
positive drug test, the results would become public information
when the case is filed with Missouri’s Administrative Hearing
Commission.